Motivational Quotes

Children

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.